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▪ I. splayed, ppl. a.1|spleɪd|
[f. splay v.1]
†1. Her. = displayed ppl. a. 2. Obs.
a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 288 Y⊇ Emperoure was fled, leuynge his baner of the splayed egle behynde hym. 1562J. Shute tr. Cambini's Turk. Wars 3 b, Scanderbeg caused to take downe the Turckes enseigne and to set up his with the splayed egle of Sable in a feelde of Gules. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 825 A Vulture splaied, which is the Crest of the Shernborns. 1659in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 242 To adde on the same stampe on the other side the splayed eagle.
2. Expanded, extended, spread (out).
a1547Surrey æneid iv. 787 The Quene the peping day Espyed, and nauie with splaid sailes depart The shore. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. ii. (1593) 27 Doris with her daughters all, of which some cut the wals [= waves] With splaied arms. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus A iij, They girde it out with splayed wynges, and ouer-stripp the Easterne wynds.
1770G. White Selborne xxxii, The fore-hoofs were up⁓right and shapely, the hind flat and splayed. 1863Reader 31 Oct. 502 The splayed vertebræ are grimly distinct—along yards on yards of spine. 1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness iii. (1902) 40 Spion Kop itself,..the thumb of the vast splayed-out hand.
3. Made or cut with a splay; slanting, bevelled:
a. Of masonry.
1823Rutter Fonthill 9 The splayed jambs of the northern doorway are large. 1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 34/1 The bricks in the angles of the splayed work are to be neatly cut. 1865Bellew Blount Tempest I. 68 The Keep presents..the same massive walls..and the same splayed windows. 1883Specif. Alnwick & Cornh. Rlwy. 3 The bricks for the splayed corners of the piers.
b. Of boards, metal plates, etc.
1858Skyring Builder's Prices 22 Floors:..straight joints, splayed headings, 42s. 1883Specif. Alnwick & Cornh. Rlwy. 20 The hinges..made of wrought-iron;..the hooks to have wrought-iron plates with splayed edge.
▪ II. splayed, ppl. a.2 Now dial.
[f. splay v.2]
Spayed; having the ovaries excised.
c1611Chapman Iliad xix. Comment., Vnlesse you will take it for a splayed or gelded Sow. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. v. i. (1668) 101 The males will make..excellent Bacon or Pork, and the females which are called splayd-guelts, will do the like. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. I. 31 The meat of a splayed goat. 1847Halliw. s.v., Nothing could have any chance of running against them but a splayed bitch.
fig.1698[R. Ferguson] View. Eccles. 49 The Report has wretchedly clipt what the Display had coyned, and the Display is now splay'd. |